Emma Nicolaou likes to describe the north London home she shares with her seriously disabled 22-year-old daughter Tyler as their “castle”, but in reality it is more like a hospital ward filled with specialist life-saving equipment.
That equipment – from oxygen monitors to electric-powered tracks on the ceiling to move Tyler around – is becoming more and more expensive to run, leaving Emma terrified of the bills she has to pay and even more worried by talk of blackouts next year.
